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Workshop on 'Word Meaning, Concepts and Communication'

Cumberland Lodge, 16th - 18th September 2005



Friday 16th September

From 12:00
Registration
Reception and ante-room
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
Cumberland Room
13:45- 14:00
Welcome and introductory information
Flitcroft Room


Session 1

14:00 - 15:30
Chair:
Deirdre Wilson (University College London)
Flitcroft Room
14:00 - 15:00
Robyn Carston (University College London)
Lexical pragmatics - is a unified account possible?
15:00 - 15:30
Tim Wharton (University College London)
What words mean is a matter of what people mean by them: from lexical acquistion to lexical pragmatics
15:30 - 16:00
Tea
Equerries' Room


Session 2

16:00 - 18:00
Chair:
Jay Atlas (Pomona College)
Flitcroft Room
16:00 - 17:00
Larry Horn
(Yale University)
Neo-Gricean lexical pragmatics: a Manichean manifesto
17:00 - 18:00
Reinhard Blutner (Humboldt University, Berlin and University of Amsterdam)
Lexical pragmatics meets embodied cognition: two case studies.
18:30
Dinner
Cumberland Room

Session 3

20:00 - 21:00
Chair:
Neil Smith
(University College London)
Flitcroft Room
20:00 - 21:00
Herb Clark
(Stanford University)
How the words uh and um work
21:00
Drinks
Sitting Room/Drawing Room